Bin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record

gabbo529 writes "Twitter has been a source of breaking news since its inception five years ago, and the social network was used at a high rate last night with the death of Osama Bin Laden. [Sunday night] saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever. From 10:45 p.m. to 2:20 a.m. ET, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets per second."

Comments

First joke I saw tweeted.

[Anonymous Coward]

A joke only UK readers will get:

Who says you can't take a Bin out on a bank holiday.

Brum tish!

Re:First joke I saw tweeted.

[symes]

My favourite was the commented posted (I think first on Reddit, but then circulated on Twitter) "At least they let him see the Royal Wedding".

Re:First joke I saw tweeted.

[Nerdfest]

For me it was "He shouldn't have bought that iPhone".

Re:First joke I saw tweeted.

[cobrausn]

Clearly they have not seen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Great, they got to shoot Osama Bin Laden and they never saw that movie. Now I have two reasons to be envious.

Inconceivable!

[Drakkenmensch]

It took the death of the most hated man alive to finally put an end to the supremacy of Justin Beiber tweets.

Re:Inconceivable!

[mangu]

It took the death of the most hated man alive

What? Justin Bieber died?

Re:Inconceivable!

[Kamiza Ikioi]

Yeah, but some dumbasses started throwing eggs at Bieber, and Bin Laden was instantly old news.

Re:Inconceivable!

[delinear]

Yeah...but it means Justin Beiber takes over as the most hated man alive. Do you really want that...?

I dunno, does it mean the US will now spend trillions of dollars ensuring his demise? I'm kind of... yeah, I think I'm good with that. Not thrilled about the timescales if it means we have to put up with him for another decade, mind.

Re:Inconceivable!

[Anonymous Coward]

He said "most hated MAN".

Re:Inconceivable!

[jo42]

What? Justin Bieber died?

"The only good Bieber is a dead Bieber.

  - MJ"

Re:Wasn't Jackson the last big one?

[ciderbrew]

he had very big hands.

Re:That's great

[clang_jangle]

I found the opening statement of TFS ("Twitter has been a source of breaking news...") kind of shocking. Does no-one read well enough to recognize a fluff piece from marketing when they see one, or do we just not care anymore?

Re:Room on the island?

[RazzleFrog]

Interestingly enough, there are plenty of conspiracy theories that say Hitler didn't die in that bunker. That he slipped the Russians grasp and ran off to Argentina or Brazil to live out a long life.

Re:What about here at Slashdot?

[AlphaBlade]

From the bottom of the page: http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml

Looks like a story about Kerry vs. Bush is the current comment champ.

I've seen better

[Freaky Spook]

Osama Bin Laden may be dead, but without Ewoks & a John Williams music score to celebrate this mighty victory with, it feels kind of empty.

Re:Room on the island?

[mikael_j]

I always hoped that Bin Laden would end up choking to death on a handful of chili nuts just outside a Walmart (where he just purchased the aforementioned nuts), dressed in a pair of surf shorts and a mickey mouse t-shirt of course. That would've stirred up some very interesting controversy, bonus points if he had been using his real ID the whole time...

Re:Room on the island?

[silanea]

This man caused the deaths of many, and instigated a sense of fear that today still affects millions accross the world in security, and other issues.

I cannot honestly say how much Bin Laden himself actually contributed to any loss of lives, but I can definitely say that any sense of fear along with that tide of intolerance was and is instigated not by some lone raving looney and his YouTube channel but by politicians on all sides of the fence. Osama Bin Laden has never posed any tangible threat to me. That puts him in stark contrast to the supranational police state that has been brought on us since 9/11.

Re:Room on the island?

[Hatta]

Bin Laden is only responsible for the deaths of around 3000 Americans. George W Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 3000 Americans, and over 100,000 civilians.

Re:Room on the island?

[MiniMike]

I had also hoped he would choke on his own nuts, but not in quite the same way you envisioned.

Re:Room on the island?

[Black Parrot]

I will be tweeting and celebrating only when the tide of intolerance, and evil fanaticism is eradicated totally, and myself and my family can look forward to living free in a world where we do not have to fear that a person is plotting to kill me, just because my views of life and liberty is different to theirs.

That's not why they want to kill you, they want to kill you because you do not believe in the same religion they do.

To be more precise, they want to kill everyone who does not believe as fervently as they do in the same interpretation of their religion.

Yeah, that's why the struck the WTC and Pentagon instead of the Vatican and other bastions of religion.

Not twitter, but first comment I saw on 4chan...

[cobrausn]

Counter-Terrorists Win!